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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Pzl-Swidnik PW-5
N9186G is a Pzl-Swidnik PW-5, a glider with no engine, built in 1995. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dennis Polen Aviation Educational Foundation, a corporation in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 4, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Pzl-Swidnik
- Model
- PW-5 · all PW-5s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. A glass-fibre glider. This is how the Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17.03.020
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- ACB794 (octal 53133624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 4, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00235681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dennis Polen Aviation Educational Foundation
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9608 Taxiway Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4452
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N9186G links to the rest of the register
- Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 53 registered
- Pzl-Swidnik 58 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Dennis Polen Aviation Educational Foundation 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Granbury, TX 362 aircraft registered in this town
- Granbury Regional · GDJ
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N9186G, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Dennis Polen Aviation Educational Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 4, 2023, 28 years after the 1995 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17.03.020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9186G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 2841343, cancelled October 29, 1992); Cessna 182N (serial 18260726, cancelled August 11, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9186G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data